Been on the phone with Apple for the last thirty minutes. We've got us some trouble, unfortunately. Something on the hard drive cannot be repaired using the boot up disc - it gets a quarter of the way through its scan then finds something it can't repair. They suggest doing a complete erase and install from the discs I have - however, I'd have to then reinstall AOL and Final Draft and Office Works and that's all a pain in the butt cheeks. But, I do have the entire hard drive backed up to a mini-hard drive, and that's current as of 6/7 (this week's attempt to do the weekly hard drive backup, failed), and all my important files and Word docs update nightly, so I'm current as of last night at ten (the only thing that's not current is today's notes, and that doesn't matter - but that's the only work I did after ten). The Apple lady suggested we might want to try Disc Warrior to see if that will repair the problem - if not, then I've got to have my Mac guy come over and reformat the hard drive, erase everything, and then reinstall from my mini-hard drive backup - she said if he does that correctly, I might not have to reinstall any programs - they should all be there just fine. I've e-mailed my Mac guy. This I do not need, let me tell you that. Very, very annoying.